Per Order FBA Fee?

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Wasn’t/Isn’t there a separate ‘per order fee’ charged by Amazon for FBA orders?

In other words, if someone ordered two of an item, the per order fee was only charged once to the entire order.

Is that a fever dream, or did that change at some point, or is it still the case? Looking through the fee info, I don’t see it.

I have a professional account (no 99 cent fee for each transaction, etc.). I am not talking about BMVD items either (which get a variable closing fee tacked on).

The reason I ask is I was going to add some promotions, where the 2nd, 3rd, etc.,
FBA items in an order get a discount in roughly the amount of this per-order fee that is NOT charged to subsequent items after the first item.

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Not to my knowledge.

The standard FBA Fulfillment fee is charged per item or per unit fulfilled. The rate is based on product type, size tier, and shipping weight.

The standard FBA Fulfillment fee is also charged on each individual item in a Virtual Bundle.

Side note: BMVD

The BMVD closing fee you mentioned above is also charged as $1.80 per unit sold for products in the Books, DVD, Music, Software & Computer/Video Games, Video Game Consoles, and Video Game Accessories categories.

Side note: Sellers on Individual Selling Plan

Individual selling plan is also a per unit or pay a per-item sold fee for each item sold in the Amazon store, in addition to any other applicable fees. The current rate per item sold for sellers on the individual plan is 99¢ per item.

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I don’t remember the details, but they did do something like that in one of the 20 times they have changed the FBA fee structures in the last 5 years.

It’s not a fever dream but I haven’t seen anything about it recently so assuming it’s gone.

Good Luck,

TJB

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Amazon changed that in 2017. Glad we weren’t around back then because it really would have pissed us off to lose that as a seller that sells multi-unit transactions very often.

I believe it used to be $1 more for each additional unit up to some point instead of 3-10X that depending on the fee tier.

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I concur this is correct, and I was super pissed. This change is what brought upon the wave of bundling that occurred on the platform.

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I did find old charts in my email from 2014-2016 that do show the per order fee.

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Thanks all…I am less convinced I am imagining things now.

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Its age, thats all.

Like confusing a spoon with a fork

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I remember those days. Amazon changed it a long time ago (I don’t remember when but I’ll go with @ASV_Vites 's time frame).

That really sucked that Amazon changed it.

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I wish we could do this with FBA. I have set up quantity discount promotions for seller fulfilled offers on my sku’s where it’s appropriate and it does help encourage multiple item orders. But alas most buy from the FBA offers that occupy the buy box and don’t investigate the ‘other offers’ to find my promotions. Amazon is not showing them the best value on the listing page, they have to dig for it. :unamused:

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Can you do it from the “Manage Inventory” page in Seller Central by “copy listing” and then changing the information to match multiple units?

Theoretically, you could then set up a variation. I guess it depends on the category. I’ve never attempted this myself.

Just thinking out loud.

I’m sure @oneida_books @ASV_Vites @papy could better assist in the “rules” part of the idea to see if this might be an option.

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They want a separate UPC for a multi pack, from the manufacturer.

This might work but I think it’s outside policy.

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Certainly outside of policy if it’s not your own brand. Sellers cannot sell item configurations (multi-packs) of brand name that isn’t theirs unless the brand sells it that way and has a GTIN associated with it.

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